Restless Leg Syndrome, or as its becoming more know about, as RLS. I feel its not like a pain, but more like a major discomfort. It seems as though when one is up and walking about its not so bad, but try standing for a short time, and you can feel it coming on.

To me, it doesn't hurt. Its more like a creepy, crawly, kind of annoyance. It appears as though, when sitting or lying down, it starts doing its thing. You feel like you have to move or scrouch around to get comfortable. The worst time is at night, when you are soooo sleepy, and you toss and turn trying to get comfy. That nagging feeling is so dominate, that you rub your legs and feet together, trying so hard to get rid of the itchiness and major discomfort, that is disrupting your sleep.

Now in this day and age, one can get medicine to relieve all those symptoms. The only thing wrong with this picture, is that there are no generics out there as of yet. You have to pay an arm and a leg for the meds, but all I can see that they do is knock you out. But I guess to some of us, that is a good thing, so as we can now get the rest that we had been lacking for months on end.

I especially feel bad for those people out there that have RLS, that have jobs that requires them to sit most of the day. But, I suppose they do the only thing they can, which is to get up and walk about for a bit, and stretch, and at least take some of the discomfort away for a little while.

It seems funny that, we as people complain if we have a job that requires us to stand and be on our feet all day. Athough, on the other hand, we complain if we have to sit all day as well.

I only hope, that people that have the misfortune of having RLS, can find some form of relief, even if they do have to revert to taking meds.

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